Monday, June 22, 2009

le cinemaStinkyLulu investigates Cher's work in Silkwood. I just watched this again and I love this performance. In fact, I love every turn in the film including Kurt Russell's. I wish Mike Nichols would make something this humble but stirring and potent again.New Yorker Evan Rachel Wood takes trapeze lessons. Fun piece... though I'll believe Jodie Foster's decades-delayed Flora Plum circus project -- not mentioned but why else the trapeze lessons -- when I see it.In ContentionA Christmas Carol sneaks.Score Enthusiast on Alexandre Desplat's work on ChériNick's Flick Picks a beautiful even handed tribute to Meryl Streep's career and its foibles, triumphs and unique pleasures

It's gay pride week in NYCFourFour has a great post on the documentary Ask Not on gays in the military and Brüno's comedic use of homophobiaBoy Culture takes justifiable aim at Will & Grace creator Max Mutchnick who has been dredging up the ol lame chestnut 'these people don't represent me'. When will people learn that wedge politics are not helpful for minorities?

i challenge you...to beat my score on Cryptic Canvas. It's a really hard but fun movie naming painted puzzle (all films from the past 20 years). Thanks to In Contention for pointing it out. I only got 27/50 answers in 20 minutes. Challenging stuff. I'm still so confused by the three pony-tailed girls in the graveyard.

I have not seen SILKWOOD. in fact, I haven't seen many of Streeps early works. I still don't know what Sophie had to choose (and don't spoil it for me!). I think the first thing I saw streep in was POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, and unfortunately, I haven't traveled back in time with her.

i'm still stumped on the three girls in the graveyard. I've been staring at it forever. can't figure out if they have mask faces, skull faces, or dog faces... and what the three of them have to do with anything. hmmm

also can't figure out the men pushing the stroller. I thought it was "daddy day care" ha ha

I'm up to 46 and have finally got the three cheerleaders - thanks for the hint, Tim. There's a great "D'uh - but of course!" factor to this that I'm really enjoying. And the illustrations are much better the photoshop version of this that Total Film do every month.

Oh yeah, I tried that a few weeks ago. I managed to get all 50, but it took me a couple of tries and some help from friends. Some of the clues are rather ambiguous.Nathaniel: for the three girls, think about how they look similar and focus on what they're doing. And like Tim mentioned, forget that they're cheerleaders.

Totally stuck on a mere 20. My brain clearly does not work well in situations like these. I've taken to typing descriptions of the pictures, in the vain hope that "a bunch of cars driving into a dragon's mouth" is the name of some obscure film.

Stupid guesses I've tried for our trio of friends in the graveyard:

The Three Faces of EveThe Fellowship of the Ring (I was SURE this was right. Ring = boxing ring. Fellowship = they're all togther...blah).

three Cs: think roman numerals.plane with sign: look carefully at the plane.book shredding lady: what do the books become when they're shredded?english flag: the guy is sick.the bird and flower are 2 separate movies.the guy with the stroller and the black guy with baseball boy are one movie.that's all I can think of. the other ones are too hard to think of clues. hope that helps!

* The Guitars are not guitars, they are Lyres. * The black man with the baseball kid and the white man with the stroller are together. All the kids with them are their children.* the bird and the flower are 2 different movies. What kind of flower and what kind of bird are they?* the dead guy from england is not dead yet.* the empire plane - take a really close look at the painting of the airplane (I tried Empire of the sun too). The Empire sign has nothing to do with it.* The Guy on the graveyard and the cheerleaders are the same move. What are the cheerlearders doing to him? And cheerlearders look all the same, but why? Are they twins, clones, just wearing the same costumes? (its to most ridiculous one, and I dont wanna give to much).* The Shereding books lady: what kind of books?? What comes out of the machine? * The single screw: think on synonymous.* If by coatrack you mean the thing on water tank, just think very bad dustin hoffman* The triplets? The Little Triplets?

ok, i finally got the trio of girls but i'm stuck on 49/50 - i can't find anything else to click on. is there anything more obscure than the ground markings (so hard not to give anything away) that i'm missing?